Rein
Nomm

Visual Explorer

I
am an artist and visual explorer who uses paint, clay, stone, wire, wood, paper, and
pixels to create and discover new visual worlds. My work has evolved from recording the
beauty and variety of the external world to creating my own imaginary worlds, as evidenced
in my paintings, sculptures, photographs and digital works. My work is small in
scale and as such is intended for private, one on one, viewing as opposed to public
viewing in a gallery. Consequently, I find the Internet to be the perfect means of sharing
my artworks with others. Although my works are stylisticly varied, they do share
undercurrents of Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction and a dash of Dada; as well asreflecting my Northern European roots and the influences
of a formal graduate education in art history and philosophy. I may
not be a great artist but I am a prolific one, working in accordance with
the principle that if I create enough works I am bound to occasionally do
something that is truly worthwhile.

My
works have been displayed, sold or published by a variety of organizations including:
Saatchi Gallery Online, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, the BBC Collective
Gallery, Downtown LA Life International Magazine, Fora Do Tempo, Boletin del
Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Historico (PH 60) in Seville, Spain; Qind Magazine
(London, England), Hackeando Catatau (Portugal), * Marilenalaterza (Italy),
Eroski Consumer (Spain), Progressive Buddhism, Chaotic (U.K.) Green Hills Literary
Lantern, Detroit Free Press, Times Union in Albany NY, File Magazine, Flak Photo, Michigan
in Pictures, Exposure Detroit Selective Focus Show, the permanent collection of the Meteor
Photo Gallery, and the Agitatto Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland. My works are also in
private collections in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. My work has been the subject
of a one-man show and I have appeared in various group shows in the US.

I am a self-taught
artist who has been honing his artistic skills for over 40 years. I have worked as a
professional photographer, off and on, for 18 years, undertaking assignments as diverse as
architectural photography, executive portraits, special events and product packaging. I
also have taught art history, philosophy and logic at various colleges and universities in
Michigan and was chairman of the Humanities department at Duns Scotus College in the
1970s. I have two Masters degrees, one in Humanities and the other in Philosophy
from Wayne State University.

I am a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for
Microbiology.

I was born in a displaced persons (DP) camp in Augsburg, Germany of Estonian parents, and
immigrated to the United States in 1950. I grew up in Detroit and currently live in
Plymouth, Michigan with my wife.